Sylvanus Cobb
Sylvanus Cobb (1798-1866) was a Universalist minister, editor, and reformer. Born in Norway, Maine, he was ordained at Winthrop in 1821 and served congregations in Maine before ministries in Malden and Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1839 he founded the Christian Freeman and Family Visiter, a Boston Universalist weekly he edited for over twenty years that campaigned against slavery, intemperance, and capital punishment. He also published A Compend of Christian Divinity and a commentary on the New Testament, and was the father of the novelist Sylvanus Cobb Jr. He died in East Boston in 1866.
In the collection (3 works)
A compend of Christian divinity (1846)
A Universalist systematic theology in the old textbook form: God, creation, providence, sin, atonement, punishment, and final restoration, each treated in order with definitions, scripture proofs, and answers to objections. Cobb — editor of the Christian Freeman and one of the denomination's weightiest doctrinal minds — wrote it to give Universalist families and students the kind of orderly compendium their orthodox neighbors had long possessed.
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The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes (1864) with Matilda H. Payson, Massachusetts Bible Society
Cobb's magnum opus, completed shortly before his death: the entire New Testament with a running apparatus of explanatory notes giving the Universalist understanding of every significant passage. Standing between Paige's multi-volume commentary and Hanson's later New Covenant translation (both in this collection), it was designed as the one-volume family Testament for Universalist households.
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Autobiography of Sylvanus Cobb (1867)
Sylvanus Cobb was a fighting editor: his weekly, the Christian Freeman, yoked Universalist theology to the causes of abolition and temperance when many pulpits kept silent. This volume gives his own account of his first forty-one years — farm boyhood in Maine, conversion to Universalism, ministry and journalism in Massachusetts — completed after his death with a memoir by his son, the popular novelist Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
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